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Next up, a largeish exhibit of a long time artist, Vija Celmims. Her pencil drawings of dirt and rocks and waves and stars were incredible and just ... mind numbingly repetitive. There were so many of them. In all kinds of sizes. Over decades. All done with pencil.
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Untitled night sky #1 1994-95 charcoal on paper This one killed me with how incredibly black and inky and real it looked. Yet also just pure nonchalance, in terms of construction. It’s just charcoal on paper. She’d color the paper in black, then reveal the stars with erasers
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Last one from Vija — she went through a reversal in the last few years. Now the stars are inky spots. Untitled reverse night sky #2 2014 charcoal pencil on acrylic ground on paper
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He had a bunch of other stuff but apparently I only liked his mountain stuff. Hoping to have some success repainting this one with the watercolor set I picked up last month Wayne Thiebaud Untitled ‘65 watercolor and gauche on paper
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